The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-30
A TUG INTO A STEAMBOAT.
GOING TO SEE THE RACE THE TUG
HdRTT RUNS INTO A FALL
RIVER BOAI.
Six OF the Hartts PASSENGERS are Thrown
Overheard and Fi.hrd Out, and One Has
n Lee Broken-Both Vessels Damaged.

Six OF the Hartts Pns,ensers are Thrown
Overheard and Fi-h~d Out, and One Has
Lee Broken-Both Vessels Damaged.
The tug j. G. HART, belonging to the Cor
noll Towing Company, and chartered by Ed
ward A. Deveau. agent OF the Stonington line.
carried sixty or sixty-nve members OF kismet
Temple, Mobiles Of tho Mystic Shrine OF Brook
Ign. to see the yacht race yesterday. Tho
guests who included ak ladies, wero mostly
residents OF Brooklyn. Besides these persons
Reporters Kennedy and Stoddard Of the Brook
Ign Times, and two representatives OF the
Brooklyn Eagle, were on board with carrier
pigeons to DO loosened with dispatches dur
Ing the race. Tho boat was in charge
OF Capt. Charles F. q. Terwiiger. with
Sandy Hook Pilot John Reardon at tho wheel
Whom about three miles out from the Hook the
Fall River steamer City Of Brockton was seen
on a nearly parallel course. and about mile
behind. Sho was under command OF Cant. E.
G. Davis. The wheel was In tho hands Of her
own officers. but Sandy Hook Pilot Downey
was in the wheolhousc. She had on board
party OF about 200. chiefly from New England.
She soon overhauled the tug and the two for
few moments pursued nearly parallel
course, distant from each other less than, 200
feet the tug on tn stsS Rn port SIDE linen
be- sucked toward her. and after a second Of
tremble from stem to stern. The live oak
prov of the tug had struck the steamer about
her guard and tearing huge hole in her s!do.
The planking ripped until gap Of twenty feet
or more 10y open and then the tugs PROV
Aboard the steamer, the passengers we're
Stea The 5 HAS
stopped every excursionist had one slung
about his waist; ln tho tug ;o m%atters were
Brooklyn. was sitting on the port side forward.
when tho crash game He thrown VIC
Shoulders ss The wash from the steamers great
L, nneS S Ss e the nSs
rails. Most Of them were thrown forward.
wafer at TSsse were were GSr L2ns n
M Rrn IT nhs IN M
Gy Iyah 81 Isl hs
sesed by Sa wave from o the Brocftons paddles
wheel and swept overheard. where he was car
%eysr eoored
the current, and reappeared several hundred
EThe Brockton did not reverse her engine.
on hSS tug for S%e as the
shes Tha tug Mabs eaa
as S tH ssa Re ss sn
The Mabel hs ssssed dsa cable Set the sa
the sponsors Of tho Brockton. in which she was
still firmly wedged The wrench CHI, bent out the
Search was made by the boats for some time
but no other weFS found
to remain in the water for some time;
BY this %e as people bs the haa
pnSSenporS of tho tug who were taken abOard
the Brockton were treated to every courtesy.
5 RSEG ToS Se S the osrs sa Sss
promptness in tho rescue were presented to
Among those who returned with the HART to
sB We the pat
t iHa s By sGSanSSb
Ct the First police precinct BiroSkyn; psyid
Bahef esy
Ss sss & s I'm RRs4 s Ss5sys
lay entirely with ths tug. he Broekton baSips
B rociton was damage anassd but little. COURSE no
the Hart art
Inspectors, II which they declared that, when
starboarded her wheel and attempted to cross
the t bows Of the Has on seeing this
III The s her rs
a,starboard. stopped The engine, and reversed
no whistle and gave no signal whatever OF her
Intention to cross the bow Of the Hart, at
her bow was not more than ten feet ahead Of
that Of the HART. The damage to the HART Is
PROV. the house. SIDES, and pitts are badly
crushed in. Capt. John " Baulsir. an old
harbor pilot and O guest on the tug. said the
action Of the ,Brockton was the most OUT
rageous thing he ever saw"
Forty -four Of the original party aboard the
HART reported last evening to the owners OF
the HART. OF the original sixty or more about
fifteen are unaccounted for.
!, Police Captain Campbell Of Brooklyn, one Of
the passengers on the tug, said last night that
no believed all who went overheard were saved.
He says he was sitting on the stern when the
tirely with the City Of Brockton. which at
tempted to pass in front Of the tug. He praises
and Israel Minor in aiding the women on the
deserted the boat and climbed up on the City
Of Brockton. On the way back to the city the
Hartt's passengers raised subscription Tor
those OF the crew who stuck to tho boat.